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Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Napier's Bones

1690

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion with a later case and dial

1680

Longcase clock in a marquetry case by William Cattell

1675-1685

Silver watch with '6-hour dial' by William Bartram

1680

Watch movement with a quarter-repeating mechanism of early design by Thomas Tompion.

1680

Silver and tortoiseshell pair cased watch by Ignatius Huggeford

1675

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Watch movement by Thomas Tompion

1692

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Silver watch with sun and moon dial, by H Adamson.

1680-1690

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Table clock by Richard Baker

1675-1700

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

1710

Eight-day longcase clock by Edward East in a later marquetry case

1675-1685

Watch with differential dial by John Ferrers

1690-1695

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Gold pair-cased repeating watch by William Tomlinson

circa 1710

Silver watch by Charles Gretton

1690

Gold watch by Brounker Watts

1700-1710

Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Month-going longcase clock with a 1¼ seconds pendulum

1675-1685

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Compound microscope

1700

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Storage jar

1714

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Pocket watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1700

Handheld reading lens and case

1680-1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Year-going longcase clock by Daniel Quare

1700-1710